Lionel Woodville
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Lionel Woodville was a 15th-century English bishop and academic who served as Bishop of Salisbury and was connected to the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lionel Woodville canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9901171 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Woodville Context triple: [Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, sibling, Lionel Woodville]
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A.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
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B.
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman, soldier, and courtier who rose to power through his marriage to Jacquetta of Luxembourg and as the father of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, consort of King Edward IV.
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C.
Charles Neville
Charles Neville was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans funk and R&B group The Neville Brothers.
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D.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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E.
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the politics of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Woodville Target entity description: Lionel Woodville was a 15th-century English bishop and academic who served as Bishop of Salisbury and was connected to the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
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A.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
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B.
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman, soldier, and courtier who rose to power through his marriage to Jacquetta of Luxembourg and as the father of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, consort of King Edward IV.
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C.
Charles Neville
Charles Neville was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the New Orleans funk and R&B group The Neville Brothers.
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D.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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E.
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the politics of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English bishop
ⓘ
Roman Catholic bishop ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
theology
ⓘ
university administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Lionel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Woodville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to the royal court of Edward IV
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role in English church politics during the Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| occupation |
bishop
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ university chancellor ⓘ |
| partOf | Wars of the Roses era English nobility network ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bishop of Salisbury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chancellor of the University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Edward IV of England
NERFINISHED
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Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
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| residence | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anthony Woodville
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Woodville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 15th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Oxford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Salisbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lionel Woodville Description of subject: Lionel Woodville was a 15th-century English bishop and academic who served as Bishop of Salisbury and was connected to the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.